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Oak Ridge Cemetery by Curtis R. Mann and Edward J. Russo (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN-10
0738577235
ISBN-13
9780738577234
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77441252
Product Key Features
Book Title
Oak Ridge Cemetery
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
United States / MidWest / East North Central (Il, in, Mi, Oh, Wi), Subjects & Themes / Historical, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
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Yes
Genre
Travel, Photography, History
Book Series
Images of America Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
0.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.5 in
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Title: A pictorial history of the ‘city of the dead’ Author: Tara McClellan McAndrew Publisher: Illinois Times Date: 1/28/10 One hundred fifty years ago this year, Springfield’s Oak Ridge Cemetery was dedicated by former mayor James Conkling as a city of the dead.” A new book by former city historian Edward Russo and current city historian Curtis Mann outlines and illustrates the history of our famous graveyard, which is the nation’s most visited cemetery next to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D. C. Their book, Oak Ridge Cemetery (Arcadia Publishing, 2009) is a pictorial, featuring dozens of photos of the cemetery from its early days to the present and uses short captions to tell its story. That story began in 1855 when the cemetery opened. At that time, life spans were shorter than they are now and child mortality was common. A family with 10 children might only see five live to adulthood. (Consider Abraham Lincoln’s family, which saw only one of four children live past the teen years.) Our ancestors developed a new type of cemetery to help them deal with frequent deaths. First, for sanitary reasons, they moved cemeteries away from cities. Second, they made their cemeteries like parks instead of austere, tombstone-laden lots. These lovely, pastoral settings helped soften the emotional sting of visiting departed loved ones and attending frequent burials. The new cemeteries were called rural landscape cemeteries and Oak Ridge was a prime and early example, according to the book. Springfield is commonly thought to be, and often is, laggard when it comes to new trends,” says Russo. Oak Ridge Cemetery is a significant exception.” Springfield was one of the leaders in developing a rural landscape cemetery. The city hired respected landscape writer William Saunders, who also laid out the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa., to take Oak Ridge’s wild and woolly few acres and turn them into a beautiful, naturalistic, park-like cemetery. Oak Ridge now spans 365 acres. Although Russo says one of the greatest challenges in creating the book was the dearth of early photos of Oak Ridge, the photos are plentiful enough to give us an idea of how untamed the land was compared to the manicured cemetery we know today. According to the authors, a biographer of one the most influential past presidents of the cemetery, Dr. Henry Wohlgemuth, says Oak Ridge was initially a rough and forbidding harbor for wild animals.” Russo, who’s had a lifelong interest in the cemetery, says Wohlgemuth was instrumental in keeping the park-like design of the cemetery and chronicling its early history. Oak Ridge is best known as the resting place of Abraham Lincoln; his tomb is an integral and fascinating part of the cemetery’s story. It has been rebuilt twice: first in 1899 and again in 1928. Those laborious reconstructions are illustrated in the book through interesting photos, one showing the disinterring of the Lincolns’ bodies, which were buried in secret locations for safekeeping during the process. Lincoln and Oak Ridge are so intertwined that sometimes the former overshadows the latter. One thing Russo wants the book to impress upon readers is that the cemetery predates the burial of Lincoln and has its own history apart from the Lincoln monument.” The book does a good job of that, and of highlighting some of the other interesting residents” of this city of the dead.” As Russo and Mann write: Oak Ridge hosts a president, Revolutionary War veteran, Illinois governors, statesmen, scoundrels, pioneers, infants, industrialists, teachers, poets, thieves and labor leaders.” One of those was former Illinois Gov. John R. Tanner, whose unique domed, granite mausoleum is a conspicuous site after entering the cemetery on Monument Avenue. Whil
Synopsis
Springfield's historic Oak Ridge Cemetery is accounted second only to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C., as the most visited cemetery in the United States. The burial place of Abraham Lincoln, Oak Ridge's dramatically landscaped grounds are an important contribution to American landscape architecture. A portrait of Victorian sentimentalizing of death, Oak Ridge provides a sublime backdrop for contemplating life. Unlike grim churchyards and bleak graveyards, rural cemeteries are places of great beauty for the living who continue to use them for walking, riding, and quiet reflection. But Oak Ridge's peacefulness has occasionally been disturbed, as in 1876 when gunfire rang out while secret service agents attempted to catch grave robbers who had broken into the Lincoln Tomb.
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